Take a look back: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, & 1990s. Now it’s time to finish this up: The top ten pop/rock albums of the 2000s according to the users of RateYourMusic.com: #01 – Radiohead – Kid A (#1213 on Amazon’s Bestselling List) #02 – Arcade Fire – Funeral (#575) #03 – Godspeed You! Black Emperor – [...]

After finding (and posting here) the top ten selling vinyl albums of 2008 last year I wanted to do the same thing this year when the numbers became available and they have and so I am. These numbers come from soundscan which has been keeping track of album sales since 1991. The 2.5 million new [...]

I’ve decided to get into this “best of the decade” game myself. These are my top 10 albums of the 2000s in chronological order with one special rule: No more than one album by any band/artist. This is to keep half of my list from being filled with Radiohead albums. Primal Scream – XTRMNTR (2000) [...]

Picking up where I left off (2003) with my series on three great albums released in each year working my way backwards from 2007. As I’ve said in my previous posts in this series, I’m not claiming these are the three best albums (I’m not sure I really believe in the term “best” to describe [...]

I’m finally (about 8 months later) picking up where I left off with my “Three Albums” series. I started in 2007 and am working my way back. I’m now to 2004. I’m not claiming these are the three best albums of ’04, and hell they may not even be my three favorite albums (maybe I’m [...]

Wilco – Wilco on June 30 I’m not that excited about this album as I think Wilco has been getting progressively less interesting since 2001′s brilliant Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (which I still think is among the best albums of the decade.) That being said, I’m sure to give it a chance and I hope it [...]

1999 was ten years ago now. Yes, that means this decade is nearly over. And that also means we have many “best of the decade” lists to look forward to at the end of the year! Anyway, this article on 7 “must hear” albums of 1999 was inspired by a much lengthier list over at [...]

Check This Out: Do you think that John McCain or Sarah Palin has even heard of Wilco? While it’s not a good reason to vote for him (but the issues are) Barack Obama is clearly the most groovy Presidential candidate to come along in quite some time. So uh, rock the vote. REGISTER TO VOTE.

Check out this groovy video of Wilco playing “Impossible Germany” in the studio. It’s one of my favorite cuts from their 2007 album Sky Blue Sky. It includes some interviews with the band on the recording of the album.

A little late, am I? Fuck off, I’ve been busy. Naturally, I do not claim to be the be-all end-all of 2007 music. There’s a myriad of supposedly music I entirely missed, among them albums by The National, Spoon, John Vanderslice, PJ Harvey, The Super Furry Animals, and Times New Viking. “Favorite Albums of…” sounds [...]